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For the first time, the big MLV Herrsching concert took place under the direction of Karl Rellensmann, but rather by MLV board member Florian Weinhart.
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Music Teachers' Association (MLV) celebrates its 30th anniversary with a concert.
Herrsching
– In the fully occupied hall of the House of Bavarian Agriculture, around 100 music students and teachers accompanied the adventure “Emil Pfau flies” on Sunday.
They celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Herrsching music school “Herrsching Music Teachers Association”, or MLV for short.
After the anniversary concert almost coincided with his 70th birthday, Karl Rellensmann, headmaster and founder of the MLV, planned to do less: “I wrote the story and handed everything else over to the team.
I heard the pieces for the first time on the Sunday before the dress rehearsal.” He then adapted the story again – “fortunately everything was finished on time,” he said.
The main character is a young peacock named Emil.
His experiences connect the musical pieces of the anniversary concert.
“Emil Pfau’s story fits the MLV logo, a plane made of music paper.
Because music gives you wings,” explains Karl Rellensmann.
And so Emil Pfau is playing his way through the levels of a mobile game when he suddenly finds himself at the location of the game.
He tries to escape from the mountain king and an angry pack of dwarves, which he finally succeeds in using flight mode on his cell phone: He takes off and sees the world from above - with borders, barbed wire and war.
Florian Weinhart, music teacher and MLV board member, led the big concert for the first time: “Karl supported the MLV for 30 years.
We want to find a nice transition,” he said.
The big concert is something very special: “In the rehearsals, life is breathed into the pieces.
The children are critical at first.
When they realize how nice it is to play in a big orchestra, they blossom and want to be there again next year,” said Florian Weinhart happily.
The one-hour concert focused on the Mountain King motif from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite: Arranged by Martina Cabell, the Mountain King appeared in a modified form in the overture, two interludes and the conclusion of the concert.
In Florian Weinhart's arrangement "Bergkönig Hip-Hop", the percussionists brought the piece into the present.
In between, the orchestra played pieces specially adapted to the concert, such as “Good Morning Starshine” from the musical “Hair” arranged by Elisabeth Schmidt and Christoph Zöller.
Accompanied by the clapping audience, the choir and wind instruments entered into a lively dialogue during the piece.
On the other hand, “Emil Pfau flies”, a composition by Florian Weinhart, was quiet and sublime.
The MLV songwriting team provided the template for the cheerful “Fly Like a Butterfly”.
The young composers Clara Weil, Amelie Bach, Stella Wetzig and Anja Rozsnyai also took on the vocals for their song - supported by Jakob Muskett.
The partly overlapping anthems of different nations, performed alternately with different instruments, had a disturbing effect.
In Johanna Langmann's arrangement, the “Eight Hymns” were reconciled in the harmony of John Lennon's “Imagine”.
With this song and the hope that peaceful coexistence could be possible, Emil Pfau's flying adventure finally ended.
Petra Baier